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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe assume when he feels the nurse's hand for the fifth time?
(a) It is 8 A.M.
(b) It is midnight.
(c) It is 4 A.M.
(d) It is time to sleep.

2. Who comes in with the nurse?
(a) A priest.
(b) A doctor.
(c) Another nurse.
(d) A man who knows Morse Code.

3. How does Joe feel when the nurse leaves the room?
(a) Angry.
(b) Rejected.
(c) Liberated.
(d) Dejected.

4. What is Joe's concern about asking for something?
(a) That it is silly to expect anything in his situation.
(b) That the government is already spending huge sums to keep him alive.
(c) That they will misunderstand.
(d) That they will refuse.

5. What does Joe ask of God?
(a) To help him die.
(b) To help him live.
(c) To help the nurse understand Joe is communicating.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes in the room and prods Joe's body?

2. What do the visitors leave with Joe?

3. What does Joe ask?

4. Joe loses track of everything but what?

5. At what age does Kareen remain in Joe's mind?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the process of the new nurse attempting to communicate with Joe.

2. How does the prostitute that Joe thinks he loves handle the situation?

3. What does Joe remember about New Year's Eve in Shale City and Los Angeles?

4. Describe how Joe thinks of the Christmas story his mother used to read.

5. What is Joe's first response to what the nurse communicates to him?

6. What happens to Joe in his third year in the hospital?

7. What do you think it means when Joe thinks that two billion people have been pushing the lid of his coffin down and covering him with dirt and stone.

8. What did Lucky survive in America and how did she survive it?

9. Describe Bonnie Flannigan and what does she tell Joe?

10. What does Joe think about when he can feel dawn?

(see the answer keys)

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